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Should this life sometime deceive you,
Don't be sad or mad at it!
On a gloomy day, submit:
Trust — fair day will come, why grieve you?

Heart lives in the future, so
What if gloom pervade the present?
All is fleeting, all will go;
What is gone will then be pleasant.

Translated by Genia Gurarie

A.S. Pushkin. “Should this life sometime deceive you...”. Translated by Genia Gurarie // Alexander Pushkin. Collected Works: Parallel Russian Text and English Translation.
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